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Arnold Joost van Keppel, 1st earl of Albemarle
Subject: History, Regional and National History
(c. 1670–1718). Dutch confidant of William III. Born in Holland, Keppel attended William of Orange to England in 1688 as a page of honour. He rose quickly in the king's ...
Arnold Joost van Keppel, 1st earl of Albemarle
(c. 1670–1718).Dutch confidant of William III. Born in Holland, Keppel attended William of Orange to England in 1688 as a page of honour. He rose quickly in the king's ...
John Jervis, 1st earl of St Vincent
(1735–1823).Promoted earl following his triumph over the Spanish fleet in February 1797, Jervis, son of a crooked Staffordshire lawyer, had an inauspicious and impoverished start in life. Jervis ...